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“Insurrections en territoire sexuel”: Wendy Delorme’s War Machines
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 87-100
- 10.1353/esp.2013.0006
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Commenting on a quotation by novelist Wendy Delorme (“Women are war machines”), this article explores the disruptive potential of Delorme’s lesbians and FtM fictional characters while also drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the war machine. The pornographic dimension of her narrative and her fluid representation of female masculinities act as powerful devices in opposition to French universalist gender norms.